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hue

1  [hyoo or, often, yoo]
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–noun
1. a gradation or variety of a color; tint: pale hues.
2. the property of light by which the color of an object is classified as red, blue, green, or yellow in reference to the spectrum.
3. color: all the hues of the rainbow.
4. form or appearance.
5. complexion.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME hewe, OE hīw form, appearance, color; c. ON hȳ bird's down, Sw hy skin, complexion, Goth hiwi form, appearance; akin to OE hār gray (see hoar )

Related forms:
hueless, adjective

hue

2  [hyoo]
–noun
outcry, as of pursuers; clamor.
Origin:
1200–50; ME hu(e) < MF: a hoot, outcry (whence huer to hoot, cry out)

Hué

  [hwey]
–noun
a seaport in central Vietnam: former capital of Annam. 200,000.
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hue   (hyōō)   
n.  

  1. The property of colors by which they can be perceived as ranging from red through yellow, green, and blue, as determined by the dominant wavelength of the light. See Table at color.

  2. A particular gradation of color; a shade or tint.

  3. Color: all the hues of the rainbow.

  4. Appearance; aspect: a man of somber hue.


[Middle English, color, form, from Old English hīw, hēo.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

hue  (1)
"color," O.E. hiw "color, form, appearance, beauty," earlier hiow, heow, from P.Gmc. *khiwjan (cf. O.N. hy "bird's down," Swed. hy "skin, complexion," Goth. hiwi "form, appearance"), probably cognate with Skt. chawi "hide, skin, complexion, color, beauty, splendor." A common word in O.E., squeezed into obscurity after c.1600 by color.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: hue
Pronunciation: 'hyü
Function: noun
: the one of the three psychological dimensions of color perception that permits them to beclassified as red, yellow, green, blue, or an intermediate between any contiguous pair of these colors and that is correlated with the wavelength or the combination of wavelengths comprising thestimulus —compare BRIGHTNESS, SATURATION 4a
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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